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Scaling Laws for Phonotactic Complexity in Spoken English Language Data

Two prominent statistical laws in language and other complex systems are Zipf’s law and Heaps’ law. We investigate the extent to which these two laws apply to the linguistic domain of phonotactics—that is, to sequences of sounds. We analyze phonotactic sequences with different lengths within words a...

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Autores principales: Baumann, Andreas, Kaźmierski, Kamil, Matzinger, Theresa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8406375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32744167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830920944445